Phrasal Verbs Practice – 79

Rebound on somebody
If something bad or unpleasant you have done rebounds on you, it has a bad effect on you
SYN backfire

Shrug something off
: To treat something as unimportant and not worry about it
.We can’t just shrug these objections off

Scrape by
To have just enough money to live
.We can scrape by, thanks to what we grow ourselves
To only just succeed in passing an examination or dealing with a difficult situation

Seize up
If an engine or part of a machine seizes up, its moving parts stop working and can no longer move
.The mechanism had seized up

Rough something out
: To draw or write something without including all the details
.A diagram the engineer had roughed out on his notepad

. Fill in the blanks with the appropriate phrasal verbs

Shrug off / rough out / seize up / scrape by

.N1. A diagram the engineer had ……………. on his notepad
……………. N2. The mechanism had
.N3. We can ……………. , thanks to what we grow ourselves
……………. N4. We can’t just ……………. these objections

:Answers

Roughed out / seized up / scrape by / shrug…off